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Full Metal Jacket, Brando's Apocalypse Now Paycheck, and Growing Up Watching Melrose Place
from Many Feathered Bird · #68
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minThey discuss disturbing 'horror-adjacent' movies like Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now, then Tim tells a long story about being an only child of degenerate baby boomer parents who let him watch Melrose Place and Arsenio Hall as a little kid, including a bit about his dad blowing off a teacher conference.
- 10:26Full Metal Jacket is one of the most psychologically horrible movies he's ever seen, especially the scene where the character shoots himself.
- 10:41Apocalypse Now scared him less than impressed him—Brando's presence dominates despite being in the film for only about ten minutes.
- 11:11The Shining is great, and Jacob's Ladder is another film that hit him hard.
- 11:45Nightmare on Elm Street felt less scary when watched on VHS or TV as a kid; RoboCop actually terrified him more at the time.
- 12:26Psychological thrillers get to him more than straight horror; Seven is amazing and his dad took him to see it at age ten or eleven.
- 12:43Being an only child with degenerate parents meant doing whatever they did—no babysitter needed, just take the kid to see Seven in theaters.
- 13:18His dad let him watch whatever he wanted, including Melrose Place, which had characters plotting to blow up each other's condos and having affairs.
- 13:44Kimberly blew up the entire apartment complex in Melrose Place, and his dad said 'beware of a woman scorned' as foreshadowing.
The Silence of the LambsCabin in the WoodsThe ShiningFull Metal JacketSe7enJacob's LadderHouse of 1000 CorpsesApocalypse NowRoboCopMelrose PlaceA Nightmare on Elm StreetDead Man WalkingMarlon Brando